Records -> Ayrshire
Stair records
Lookup searches – Access records in Scottish archives for ancestors in this parish (e.g. Kirk Session Records). Available from £1 a name a year.
Poor Law appeals – Indexed Poor Law appeals with the option to order images of records.
Asylum records – Index to the General Register of Lunatics in Asylums
School records – Index to School Leaving Certificate Examination results
Anatomy Registers – Index to the records of the Inspector of Anatomy for Scotland
Birth records with no father’s name – Hit a brick wall with no father named in a birth record? Help is at hand: see our list for this parish below.
Asylum records – Index to the General Register of Lunatics in Asylums
Male Heads of Families – Free transcripts of rolls of male heads of families from the 1830s
Kirk Sessions Index – Free extracts from Kirk Session records
Lookups
The records of the Kirk Session contain a variety of documents which detail many aspects of the daily lives of all types of people throughout Scotland from the 16th century onwards. We are pleased to be able to offer a search service in some of the records available for this parish. We will search for a given name in any of the record sets in the table below, and provide you with transcripts of any matching entries for just £1 per name per year.
We do not currently have any lookups available for this parish.
Board of Supervision poor relief appeals
The Board of Supervision was established under the 1845 Poor Law Act. One of its tasks was to hear appeals by paupers against inadequate poor relief granted by Parochial Boards. These appeals were recorded in the Board of Supervision minutes. Cases were often heard over an extended period. The minutes may contain a variety of information, including about other family members, medical conditions and other circumstances. For more information about these records, see here.
We are pleased to be able to offer to obtain images of the minutes for each appeal, at the following rates:
We are pleased to be able to offer to obtain images of the minutes for each appeal, at the following rates:
- £3 for a single minute
- £6 for up to 3 minutes for a single case
- £9 for any single case with more than 3 minutes (some cases have as many as 8 minutes)
| Name | Address | Year(s)/ minutes | Order images | Deliverance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert KIRKLAND | 1874 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Jean MCNEILL | 1860 (1) | Order images | Refused | |
| Robert MURDOCH | 1857 (2) | Order images | Ground of complaint removed |
Sheriff Court paternity decrees
Single mothers often took the fathers of their children to court for child support. Such cases were known as filiation and aliment cases. The court could order the father to provide maintenance payments to the mother. If the mother won her case, the court would issue a decree, which would allow the mother to enforce payment of aliment. We have indexed all the records of such cases held by the National Records of Scotland from at least 1855 to 1880, and can provide digital images of the records. To order your copy, simply click on the Order now link in the table below.
We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish.
| Mother name and residence | Defender name | Child birth | Order | Court |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jane KERR or MCCORMICK Trabboch, Stair, Ayrshire | John SLATER | 12 Aug 1895 Trabboch, Stair, Ayrshire | Order now | Airdrie SC35/7/6 |
School Leaving Certificate Exams
This is an index to the registers of school leaving certificate examination results (NRS Reference ED36). To order a copy of the record for your ancestor, just click on the Order now link.
| Name | Date of birth | School | Year | Order record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isabella HERON | 29 Jun 1889 | Stair Public School | 1908 | Order now |
Anatomy register
This is an index to the registers of the Inspector of Anatomy for Scotland (NRS Reference MH1/1-MH1/30). We do not currently have any records for this parish.
List of Births with no Father's name 1855-1874
Your research hit a brick wall when you discovered a birth record missing this vital name? Choose Find the Father by any birth below to start breaking down that barrier today with our FREE search service. Where we've already identified the father, click on the Father Found link to order a copy of the record naming the father. For births outwith this period, click here.
| Child name | Date of birth | Mother name | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jane Wallace BROWN | 17 January 1866 | Jane BROWN | Find the father |
| John BROWN | 11 April 1869 | Jane BROWN | Find the father |
| John BROWN | 1 March 1872 | Margaret BROWN | Find the father |
| Mary Ker BROWN | 12 August 1872 | Mary BROWN | Find the father |
| William BROWN | 11 April 1869 | Jane BROWN | Find the father |
| John Fairley CRAIG | 8 February 1861 | Jean CRAIG | Find the father |
| Mary Jane CRAIG | 9 February 1863 | Jane CRAIG | Find the father |
| Jane Mcgee CURRIE | 24 June 1870 | Catherine CURRIE | Find the father |
| Eliza Jane Quin DOUGLAS | 15 May 1874 | Jane DOUGLAS | Find the father |
| Marion FREW | 31 January 1864 | Marion FREW | Find the father |
| Helen GIBSON | 24 April 1874 | Janet GIBSON | Find the father |
| John GIBSON | 19 October 1873 | Mary GIBSON | Father found |
| Elizabeth GLOVER | 28 April 1856 | Elizabeth GLOVER | Find the father |
| Jane Murdoch HAY | 25 February 1865 | Elisabeth HAY | Find the father |
| Agnes Flinn LEES | 9 January 1866 | Margaret LEES | Father found |
| Hugh LEES | 8 January 1873 | Margaret LEES | Find the father |
| Jane LEES | 9 May 1869 | Margaret LEES | Find the father |
| Janet LEES | 18 January 1864 | Margaret LEES | Find the father |
| John LEES | 20 May 1863 | Helen LEES | Find the father |
| John LEES | 16 February 1874 | Margaret LEES | Find the father |
| Margaret LEES | 11 September 1871 | Margaret LEES | Find the father |
| Robert LEESE | 29 April 1860 | Margaret LEESE | Find the father |
| Agnes MAIR | 18 September 1857 | Margaret MAIR | Find the father |
| Agnes Hamilton MARR | 30 April 1860 | Margaret MARR | Find the father |
| Thomas MAXWELL | 5 October 1874 | Grace MAXWELL | Find the father |
| Donald MCNEILL | 25 December 1856 | Ann Monagh MCNEILL | Find the father |
| William MCNEILL | 23 May 1856 | Jean MCNEILL | Find the father |
| Agnes MCNEILLIE | 19 May 1867 | Sarah MCNEILLIE | Find the father |
| William MUIR | 2 June 1874 | Elizabeth MUIR | Find the father |
| James MUNN | 2 May 1874 | Annie MUNN | Find the father |
| Joanna MURDOCH | 15 November 1863 | Mary MURDOCH | Find the father |
| John PATERSON | 28 October 1874 | Charlotte PATERSON | Find the father |
| James PEARSON | 2 August 1863 | Elisabeth PEARSON | Find the father |
| Agnes RITCHIE | 14 July 1869 | Agnes RITCHIE | Find the father |
| Jane RITCHIE | 18 July 1874 | Agnes RITCHIE | Find the father |
| Margaret RITCHIE | 6 February 1874 | Elizabeth RITCHIE | Find the father |
| Johanana Martin ROSS | 10 January 1860 | Catherine ROSS | Find the father |
| Cathrine SMITH | 18 January 1857 | Mary Ann SMITH | Find the father |
| George STEWART | 28 November 1873 | Jane STEWART | Find the father |
| Elisabeth WALKER | 21 August 1855 | Marion WALKER | Find the father |
| William WALLACE | 7 November 1862 | Christina WALLACE | Find the father |
| Christina WILSON | 3 January 1872 | Mary WILSON | Find the father |
| Marion WILSON | 5 March 1856 | Sarah WILSON | Find the father |
General Register of Lunatics
This index shows patients from this parish admitted to asylums. We have not yet identified any patients from this parish.
Rolls of Male Heads of Families
In 1834, the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland passed the Veto Act, removing the absolute right of landowners to appoint ministers to their parish. The Act gave male heads of families who were communicants with the parish the right to veto the appointment of a new minister if a majority of them objected. To this end, the Assembly instructed kirk sessions to draw up rolls of the male heads of families in each parish. We have transcribed the surviving rolls, and are publishing them here. They are significant as they pre-date the earliest nominal census, which took place in 1841.
No Roll of Male Heads of Families has yet been found for this parish
Kirk Session Records Index
Use the name links below to go to the entries for the person you are interested in. We have selected 1832 as an example year for parishes across Scotland. If you would like more information about the existence of Kirk Session minutes for this or another parish or would like to search for particular people in the minutes please contact us.
We have not yet indexed any Kirk Session records for this parish.
